# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-52831"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:31:33.566Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:27:14.150Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52831"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52831.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52831"
title: "cpu/hotplug: Don't offline the last non-isolated CPU"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncpu/hotplug: Don't offline the last non-isolated CPU\n\nIf a system has isolated CPUs via the \"isolcpus=\" command line parameter,\nthen an attempt to offline the last housekeeping CPU will result in a\nWARN_ON() when rebuilding the scheduler domains and a subsequent panic due\nto and unhandled empty CPU mas in partition_sched_domains_locked().\n\ncpuset_hotplug_workfn()\n  rebuild_sched_domains_locked()\n    ndoms = generate_sched_domains(&doms, &attr);\n      cpumask_and(doms[0], top_cpuset.effective_cpus, housekeeping_cpumask(HK_FLAG_DOMAIN));\n\nThus results in an empty CPU mask which triggers the warning and then the\nsubsequent crash:\n\nWARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 80 at kernel/sched/topology.c:2366 build_sched_domains+0x120c/0x1408\nCall trace:\n build_sched_domains+0x120c/0x1408\n partition_sched_domains_locked+0x234/0x880\n rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0x37c/0x798\n rebuild_sched_domains+0x30/0x58\n cpuset_hotplug_workfn+0x2a8/0x930\n\nUnable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffe80027ab37080\n partition_sched_domains_locked+0x318/0x880\n rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0x37c/0x798\n\nAside of the resulting crash, it does not make any sense to offline the last\nlast housekeeping CPU.\n\nPrevent this by masking out the non-housekeeping CPUs when selecting a\ntarget CPU for initiating the CPU unplug operation via the work queue."
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